Pivot-based Bilingual Dictionary Induction for Low Resource Languages

Many Indonesian languages belong to the Austronesian language family, which are very similar languages with the same ancestral language. To create a new bilingual dictionary between these languages (e.g., Malay and Minangkabau), we generated a network of bilingual dictionaries (Malay-Indonesian bilingual dictionary and Minangkabau-Indonesian bilingual dictionary) with a common pivot language (Indonesian) connecting the bilingual pairs in each dictionary and extracts word pairs 'kutukan (Malay) and kiparaik (Minangkabau)' at both ends as bilingual pairs.However, if the words in the pivot language are polysemic (sumpah (Indonesian) has meanings such as oath, promise, and curse) Word pairs with different meanings 'kutukan (Malay) and janji (Minangkabau)' could be extracted. Therefore, we improve accuracy by extracting only word pairs with symmetric topology.

[Arbi H. Nasution, Yohei Murakami Toru Ishida. A Generalized Constraint Approach to Bilingual Dictionary Induction for Low-Resource Language Families, ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 9:1-29, 2018.,
Arbi H. Nasution, Yohei Murakami Toru Ishida. Plan Optimization to Bilingual Dictionary Induction for Low-Resource Language Families, ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 29:1-28, 2020.]

A Neural Network Approach to Bilingual Dictionary for Low Resource Language Families

Many Indonesian languages belonging to the Austronesian language family are very similar. These very similar languages have words called allonyms, which are derived from words in the same ancestral language. Tautologous words are derived language by language from the same word as the pronunciation of each language develops. Pronunciations of allomorphs may show regular changes between languages (e.g., the 'o' at the end of 'a' word changes to 'a'). The goal is to generate a translation by learning this regular change with a neural network and applying this rule to words in one language. We also aim to contribute to comparative linguistics by generating hypotheses about derivational relations between languages based on the similarity of the acquired rules.

Decentralized Neural Machine Translation

Building a highly accurate neural machine translation requires a large amount of high-quality bilingual data. However, the construction of such bilingual data incurs significant costs, making it difficult for a single organization to construct such data.In addition, the collection of bilingual data created by different organizations is also hampered by copyright issues, making it difficult to consolidate.Therefore, rather than consolidating the bilingual data in one place for learning, models can be generated by learning the bilingual data under each data owner and then By using federal learning, in which the models are federally linked, we aim to build a decentralized neural machine translation system.